Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, northwest China - Nov 28, 2022 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Press conference on Shenzhou-15 manned space mission in progress
2. Various of reporters
3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Ji Qiming, assistant to director, China Manned Space Agency:
"The development of the project has always adhered to self-reliance and independent innovation. We have made major breakthroughs and mastered a large number of key technologies with independent intellectual property rights. The localization rate of modules and core components is 100 percent, as we have blazed a path of manned aerospace development with Chinese characteristics."
4. Various of camera crew, reporters
5. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Ji Qiming, assistant to director, China Manned Space Agency:
"Our success is based on scientific and efficient project management. We have adhered to the guidance of system engineering theory by strengthening the top-level design and overall advancement, persisting on the organic unity of technological progress and resources, and prioritizing quality and safety, to ensure the efficient progress and continuous success in completing the space station construction tasks."

FILE: Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site, Hainan Province, south China - Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
6. Various of engineers working, testing Mengtian lab module of Tiangong space station

Beijing, China - Nov 2, 2022 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
7. Office of ground support team for Tiangong space station
8. Various of engineers at work
9. Various of screen showing space station, astronauts in orbit

In Space - Recent (China Manned Space Agency - No access Chinese mainland)
10. Various of Tiangong space station in orbit

Innovation and scientific engineering are the key behind China's success in building the T-shaped structure of the country's Tiangong space station in 19 months, said Ji Qiming,assistant to the director of China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) at a press conference on Monday.

Since the core module Tianhe was launched in April 2021， China officially kicked off the in-orbit construction of its space station, the final goal of the country's "three-step" human space program initiated 30 years ago.

In more than a year, the country has carried out 11 launches of spacecraft, with 12 astronauts, in four batches, conducting seven extravehicular activities to complete the assembly and construction of the T-shaped basic structure of the space station as scheduled.

Thousands of institutions and companies， as well as researchers and engineers have joined the constructive work， which has exhibited the great synergy of the Chinese people, said Ji.

"The development of the project has always adhered to self-reliance and independent innovation. We have made major breakthroughs and mastered a large number of key technologies with independent intellectual property rights. The localization rate of modules and core components is 100 percent, as we have blazed a path of manned aerospace development with Chinese characteristics," he said.

"Our success is based on scientific and efficient project management. We have adhered to the guidance of system engineering theory by strengthening the top-level design and overall advancement, persisting on the organic unity of technological progress and resources, and prioritizing quality and safety, to ensure the efficient progress and continuous success in completing the space station construction tasks," Ji continued.